Townsville City Council
Local workers - Qualifications - All industries
Qualification levels help to evaluate the economic opportunities and socio-economic status of local workers in a particular industry.
The level of qualifications in a workforce relate to a number of factors including:
- The age of the workforce;
- The skill and qualification level required to enter an industry;
- The professional or working ambitions of people (to seek education as youth or retraining as adults);
- The opportunities afforded to people to continue studying beyond compulsory schooling.
Educational Qualification statistics should be looked at in conjunction with Field of qualification and Occupations data for a full education analysis for the Townsville City Council.
Data source
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) – Census 2016 & 2021 – by place of work
Current industry:
Current benchmark:
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| Local workers qualifications | |||||||||
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| Townsville City Council - All industries | 2021 | 2016 | Change | ||||||
| Qualification level | Number | % | Queensland | Number | % | Queensland | 2016 - 2021 | ||
| Bachelor or Higher degree | 22,060 | 25.4 | 29.3 | 18,680 | 22.9 | 25.1 | +3,380 | ||
| Advanced Diploma or Diploma | 8,945 | 10.3 | 11.3 | 8,234 | 10.1 | 10.9 | +711 | ||
| Certificate I and II Level | 1,509 | 1.7 | 1.5 | 1,143 | 1.4 | 1.3 | +366 | ||
| Certificate III & IV Level | 21,672 | 25.0 | 23.2 | 19,988 | 24.5 | 23.0 | +1,684 | ||
| Certificate Level, nfd | 1,405 | 1.6 | 1.8 | 1,421 | 1.7 | 2.0 | -16 | ||
| No qualification | 29,560 | 34.1 | 30.7 | 30,422 | 37.2 | 35.0 | -862 | ||
| Inadequately described or not stated | 1,628 | 1.9 | 2.2 | 1,829 | 2.2 | 2.7 | -201 | ||
| Total Persons | 86,779 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 81,717 | 100.0 | 100.0 | +5,062 | ||
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing 2016 and 2021. Compiled and presented by .id (informed decisions) Please refer to specific data notes for more information | |||||||||
Dominant groups
Analysis of the qualifications of the in the Townsville City Council in 2021 compared to Queensland shows that there was a lower proportion holding formal qualifications (Bachelor or higher degree; Advanced Diploma or Diploma; or Vocational qualifications), and a higher proportion with no formal qualifications.
Overall, 64.1% of the workers who held educational qualifications, and 34.1% had no qualifications, compared with 67.1% and 30.7% respectively for Queensland.
The major differences between the qualifications held by the workforce of the Townsville City Council and Queensland were:
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Bachelor or Higher degree (25.4% compared to 29.3%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with No qualification (34.1% compared to 30.7%)
- A larger percentage of local workers with Certificate III & IV Level (25.0% compared to 23.2%)
- A smaller percentage of local workers with Advanced Diploma or Diploma (10.3% compared to 11.3%)
Emerging groups
The largest changes in the qualifications held by the workforce in the Townsville City Council between 2016 and 2021 were:
- Bachelor or Higher degree (+3,380 local workers)
- Certificate III & IV Level (+1,684 local workers)
- No qualification (-862 local workers)
- Advanced Diploma or Diploma (+711 local workers)